For decades, planetary seismology has run into a baffling enigma nearly 2,900 kilometers deep, right at the boundary between ...

Researchers have discovered chemical traces of life in rocks older than 3.3 billion years, offering a rare look at Earth’s ...

Deep In Time’ engages with the concept of deep time, and its autonomy. Time that extends beyond that of which we can see. Its ...

UB earth sciences students develop valuable fieldwork skills during a trip to New Hampshire to study igneous rocks and volcanic landscapes.

USGS has unveiled its most detailed national geologic map, giving the public a free, interactive way to explore underground ...

Scientists have made a perplexing discovery in Greenland’s ice sheet that challenges our understanding of the region’s ...

Geologists discovered ancient rocks in Greenland that preserve the oldest known traces of Earth’s early magnetic field.

A 20-year study of nearly 11,000 adults in Bangladesh found that lowering arsenic levels in drinking water was associated ...

Had one hoped to leave a time capsule for today’s Bostonians in the Permian period 250 million years ago, much less the Pliocene epoch four million years ago , they would have been completely, utterly ...

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

Morocco now produces more meteorite discoveries than anywhere on Earth, with some Martian and lunar fragments selling for millions of dollars.

New global stress map reveals areas where the Earth's crust is on the verge of collapse, doubling the data and changing ...